A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.

To a real child anything will serve as a toy.

The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.

Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?

The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.

Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.

The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.

"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

Words cannot be remote from reality when they create reality.

We live in a world where expectation exceed inspiration

Justice is a necessity for a fair and free society.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

When I'm on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

We heard from the abortionists and we heard from the people who looked like Jacks, acted like Jills and had the odors of Johns.

In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others)

What I do see is the right from the beginning that [Donald] Trump had an interest and was very persuasive in terms of talking about the veterans and needing to make changes there.

And Daniel?" She asked. "Daniel was a player-" "Hey!" "That's what they called the actors." Bill rolled his eyes.

Planning is design. As a designer what I tend to do, and what's different from being a painter, is that I interact with other people, and the people have things they need to have happen.